MSU says goodbye to its philosopher cowboy Gordon "Corky" Brittan.

You begin to get some inkling of the vast range of thought Gordon "Corky" Brittan holds in his head if you look at his boots while he talks.

At the moment he’s talking about predestination’s incompatibility with free will, his lectures on Kant, the philosophy of technology, his love of teaching metaphysics.

In his voice and manners is the cultivated civility of an Amherst graduate who traveled to Europe while young and grew up in a well-off world with every educational advantage.

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Brittan also assisted former MSU president Mike Malone in establishing the Burton K. Wheeler Center http://www.montana.edu/wheeler/ in 1988. Named after the U.S. senator who served Montana from 1923 to 1947, the center hosts major statewide conferences for vigorous, non-partisan discussion on Montana’s most pressing issues, such as transportation, crime, taxation, and this spring, climate change and its intersection with agriculture and energy.

by Tracy Ellig

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/mountainsandminds/spring2008/brittan/index.html

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Wheeler Conference – “Climate Change In Montana: Impacts And Opportunities For Agriculture And Energy”, 5/12-13, Bozeman http://matr.net/events.phtml?showdetail=2259